Area All-State

Every year at the end of January, a select few music students travel to Ithaca College to rehearse and perform a concert. It starts out with hopeful musicians from all over New York sending applications into NYSSMA board members in October. These applications have all the scores of past solos on a particular instrument or voice part and the level of the difficulty of each solo. After about a month of deliberation, the board members inform music teachers of the students selected to participate. For Area All-State, the musicians are selected from their zone in the state, of which there are 15. Homer, part of Cortland County, is in Zone 3 with five other counties.

Last Friday and Saturday, nine Homer High School students traveled to Ithaca to participate. The choir members were Kate Halstead, Rachel Crompton, Ellie Anderson, David Fuller, and Bella Sprague. The band members were Michael Morse (percussion), Evan Ulrich (trombone), Kennedy George (euphonium), and Ana Shore (tuba). Both concerts on Saturday night were well received by the audience. Congratulations to all these musicians for their hard work!